DETAIL
1:13 PM: I continued work on the new watercolor this morning. i’m going very slowly; as it evolves, each successive stage stands alone as a completed work. so it’s up to me how far I take it. I do like how suggestive the white spaces are.
i’m going to leave it alone for now & maybe start a second one tomorrow, which will allow me to do my favorite thing: going back & forth between two works in progress.
the detail on the left reveals the relationship between the tree trunk & branches and the caryatids, whose draped bodies echo the peeling bark of the dead tree.